I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.
If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
It is important to create credit absorption capacity rather than to just enhance lending targets.
Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.
I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.
They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Somewhere along the way, New York became all about money. Or rather, it was always about money, but it wasn't all about money, if you know what I mean. New York's not Geneva or Zurich yet, but we're certainly heading in that direction. London is, too.
I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else.
When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
Doing field trips rather than simply researching online allows me to experience the story from the point of view of my main character; you can't get that by sitting at a desk.
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.
You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.
If it isn't necessary I would rather not subject my skin to too much, so if I don't have anything special to do for the day, I try not to wear any make up.
Through technology and social media, we're able to create an identity online that shows people the face that we want them to see and rather than who they really are.
I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.
